The stock market continued its march higher for a fourth week as investors focused on signs of improvement in the U.S. economy.

The debt ceiling clock is about to start running again. The U.S. Treasury on Friday began using "extraordinary measures" to keep the country from defaulting on its obligations.

As part of a budget compromise in February, lawmakers suspended the countr...

The Internal Revenue Service scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for the nation's 2 million federal workers, who are desperate to end furloughs and get their first raise in three years.

IRS workers were front and center at a Friday congressiona...

The class of 2013 is in for a rude awakening this graduation season.

Hedge fund managers are boarding Boeing.

It's unclear whether the top hedge fund managers would bet on riding one of Boeing's troubled Dreamliners, but Boeing was the favorite stock of the top 50 hedge fund managers in the world in the first quarter ...

Some of the world's biggest oil companies may have a new mess on their hands.

The European Commission raided the offices of Shell, BP and Norway's Statoil this week as part of an investigation into suspected attempts to manipulate global oil prices sp...

Privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass are growing rampant.

After months of doom and gloom for European automakers, the latest car registrations data show there may be light at the end of the tunnel.

The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed another victim -- the Financial Times.

The pro-Syrian hacking group broke into one of the newspaper's blogs and some social media accounts, issuing tweets saying "Syrian Electronic Army Was Here" and blog posts ...

Investors were warming up to stocks early Friday ahead of a report on American consumers that could ease fears about the economy.

The trading day may be subdued since there are few corporate or economic reports scheduled for release. The one notable ...

When Facebook made its stock market debut last May, Barry Graubart was set to buy $10,000 worth of shares in the initial public offering. But due to Nasdaq's trading glitches, his buy order never went through.

A year later, with Facebook's stock down...

There's one great thing about J.C. Penney's last quarter: It's over.

The struggling retailer lost a whopping $289 million for the three months ended on May 4, with sales plunging 16.4% versus a year prior.

The losses came during a quarter in which J.C....

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a simple message to a crowd of developers Wednesday: we need to stop fighting over little things and work together.

Dell, the world's number three PC maker, reported Thursday a 79% profit plunge for the first quarter of the year -- to just $130 million -- owing to a slump in desktop and laptop sales, so-called "end-user computing" products. Quarterly operating inc...

Google spent the second half of the 2000s turning Google Talk into the de facto replacement for AOL Instant Messenger. Then, over the past few years, Google stopped paying attention to it altogether.

During this span, when, where and how we chat has ...

Of all the updates to apps and services that Google unveiled today at its I/O conference, its Chrome Racer demo wasn't the most complex, or grandiose or important thing on display. But it was definitely my favorite.

Initial jobless claims jumped higher than expected last week, breaking a series of weekly declines that had brought it to multi-year lows, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.

Jobless claims surged by 32,000, totaling 360,000 in the week ended...

U.S. law enforcement officials cracked down this week on the Bitcoin economy's biggest exchange, Mt. Gox, accusing its operator of running a money transmitting business without the proper license and freezing several of its key financial accounts.

Th...

Stocks skidded Thursday, as a series of mixed economic reports offered little inspiration to buy stocks.

After hitting new all-time highs on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 closed down 0.3% and 0.5%.

The Nasdaq dropped 0.2%...

U.S. stocks end lower after mixed economic data. Dow falls 44 points. Nasdaq dips 0.2%, S&P falls 0.5%.

The Internal Revenue Service group under fire in the current scandal was overworked, understaffed and lacked a layer of experienced middle managers, according to two former IRS employees.

Bernard Madoff once had billions of dollars, but now he makes $40 a month doing menial prison labor.

"I used to work as a clerk in the commissary, and now they have me taking care of the telephone and the computer systems," said Madoff, speaking by ph...

SolarCity shares are shining once again.

The solar-energy installer surged 9% Thursday after announcing an agreement with Goldman Sachs that will finance $500 million worth of solar projects. The deal, inked last year, has already supported 26 megawat...

France wants to see the creation of a eurozone government within two years to help lift the region out of its economic slump, its president said Thursday.

Francois Hollande said he wanted the 17 countries sharing the euro currency to establish a gove...

The New York State attorney general is investigating whether fast food restaurant owners have cheated their workers out of wages.

The attorney general's office has issued one subpoena to a fast food parent company and is also looking at several franch...

One of Bloomberg's biggest customers wants to know exactly what journalists were able to see when they tracked client activity on its financial news and data terminals.

JPMorgan Chase is asking to see five years of internal Bloomberg logs as the data ...

Several popular compact SUVs did poorly in a tough new crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. However, two, the new Subaru Forester and the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, did well.

The Hyundai Tucson, Ford Escape, Kia Sportag...

White, non-Hispanic kids will no longer make up the majority of America's youth in just five to six years, according to Census Bureau projections released Wednesday.

A sharp pullback in apartment and condominium construction led to a big decline in overall home building in April, even as single-family home construction remained strong, according to government data released Thursday.

General Electric is warning airlines using its jet engines on their Boeing 777s that they need to make a fix, following two incidents in which engines shutdown in flight.

GE said the problem with with a gearbox inside 118 of the engines that were buil...